Cloud Policy, Big Data and the Long Tail of Science
Nearly every academic research field is a data-rich science field but the majority of researchers still don't have access to cloud resources. Clouds can help democratise science for this 'Long Tail of Science', but how do we make that happen? David Gannon from Microsoft Research described some of the work they are involved in, and outlined some of the policy challenges faced by the research...
Date: 2017-04-01 01:53:48
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The Long Tail
A team at Wharton did some Long Tail analysis on the Netflix ratings data the company released for its Netflix Prize. Although I don't agree with many of the conclusions in their paper (like some other academics, they got confused over definitions of "head" and "tail" and fell into the common trap of doing percentage analysis in an absolute numbers world), the data was interesting. They kindly...
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